Waking from the American Dream: Transformations in American Society, Politics and Culture, Andreas Hess

Автор: Andreas Hess
Название: Waking from the American Dream: Transformations in American Society, Politics and Culture
ISBN: 1849668949 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849668941
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Цена: 68640.00 T
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Описание: The American dream has been a central pillar in the building of American society from the Founding Fathers to the present day. In his acceptance speech as president-elect Barack Obama talked of the need to 'reclaim the American dream'. This book takes the Obama presidency as a launch pad in order to track the changes that have occurred in American society, politics and culture since the founding of the republic. The authors argue that in a country fighting two wars and with historic levels of national, budget and consumer debt Americans actually need to wake up from the American dream and to reinvent the nation as a progressive force in future global politics. This is an interdisciplinary study drawing on current research in politics, sociology and history . The book is thematically organized, covering, inter alia, the idea of of American exceptionalism from de Tocqueville to Lipset, the origins and structure of the American polity, multiculturalism and identity , social stratification, religion and culture, political economy and America's global role.

Автор: Martin J. Murray
Название: The Urbanism of Exception
ISBN: 1316620522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316620526
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book challenges the conventional understanding of cities not only as bounded spaces with a coherence all of their own but also urbanization as a universal process along a linear pathway toward a common end-point. Increasingly, urbanizing processes on a global scale have produced distended urban regions that resemble assemblages of enclosed enclaves and discontinuous zones.

Автор: Michener Jamila
Название: Fragmented Democracy
ISBN: 131664958X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316649589
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Описание: This book is about how Medicaid intersects with federalism and how it affects the lives of the people who use it and shapes their democratic citizenship. The primary audience is academics and informed members of the public interested in American politics, public policy, healthcare, inequality, contextual effects, and democracy.

Автор: Hassanpour, Navid
Название: Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action
ISBN: 1316506452 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316506455
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Описание: Political revolutions, economic meltdowns, mass ideological conversions and collective innovation adoptions occur often; nevertheless, when they happen, they tend to be the least expected. Taking as evidence two Middle Eastern uprisings, as well as behavioural experiments of collective risk-taking, Hassanpour offers an explanation based on a novel paradigm of `leading from the periphery`.

Автор: Liu, Hwa-Jen,
Название: Leverage of the weak
ISBN: 0816689520 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816689521
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation’s development?Despite their apparent resemblance-a colonial heritage, authoritarian rule, rapid industrialization, and structural similarities-Taiwan and South Korea were opposites in their experiences with two key social movements. South Korea followed a conventional capitalist route: labor movements challenged the system long before environmental movements did. In Taiwan, pro-environment struggles gained strength before labor activism. Liu argues that part of the explanation lies in an analysis of how movements advance their causes by utilizing different types of power. Whereas labor movements have the power of economic leverage, environmental movements depend on the power of ideology. Therefore, examining material factors versus ideational factors is crucial to understanding the successes (or failures) of social movements.Leverage of the Weak is a significant contribution to the literature on social movements, to the study of East Asian political economies, and to the progress of the comparative-historical method. It enhances knowledge of movement emergence, investigates the possibilities and obstacles involved in forging labor–environment alliances, and offers the first systematic, multilayered comparisons across movements and nations in East Asia.

Автор: Murray
Название: The Urbanism of Exception
ISBN: 1107169240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107169241
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book challenges the conventional understanding of cities not only as bounded spaces with a coherence all of their own but also urbanization as a universal process along a linear pathway toward a common end-point. Increasingly, urbanizing processes on a global scale have produced distended urban regions that resemble assemblages of enclosed enclaves and discontinuous zones.

Автор: Brown, Boyce
Название: Policy history of standards-based education in america
ISBN: 1433127407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433127403
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: A Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America is a narrative history of the development of standards-based education in the United States over the last several decades, from the perspective of anarchist cultural studies. There have been other books on the evolution of federal education policy, but few have struck the right balance between describing how it actually happened while still providing a theoretical framework, and none have kept the focus specifically on standards-based education. These related books have also rightly noted the great diversity of players, factions, interest groups, and organizations that helped move federal education policy from equity , to excellence , to accountability over the last four decades. This book goes on to make the original claim (using a rigorous analysis of the historical record) that big business was the primary empirical driver behind standards-based education and global economic competitiveness was the primary ideological driver. Finally, the book concludes by interrogating the implicit claims embedded within global competitiveness ideology; that the present international economy will continue as it has indefinitely, which is mathematically impossible. Unless things change quickly, this planet is heading toward economic, environmental, and geostrategic shocks of the very first order of magnitude. An eco-pedagogy for anarchist bioregions might be part of the solution.
The leading markets for this book will be major public and Division 1 research university libraries and university courses in education policy, education law, education history, political science, and public policy.

Автор: Brown, Boyce
Название: Policy history of standards-based education in america
ISBN: 1433127415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433127410
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: A Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America is a narrative history of the development of standards-based education in the United States over the last several decades, from the perspective of anarchist cultural studies. There have been other books on the evolution of federal education policy, but few have struck the right balance between describing how it actually happened while still providing a theoretical framework, and none have kept the focus specifically on standards-based education. These related books have also rightly noted the great diversity of players, factions, interest groups, and organizations that helped move federal education policy from equity , to excellence , to accountability over the last four decades. This book goes on to make the original claim (using a rigorous analysis of the historical record) that big business was the primary empirical driver behind standards-based education and global economic competitiveness was the primary ideological driver. Finally, the book concludes by interrogating the implicit claims embedded within global competitiveness ideology; that the present international economy will continue as it has indefinitely, which is mathematically impossible. Unless things change quickly, this planet is heading toward economic, environmental, and geostrategic shocks of the very first order of magnitude. An eco-pedagogy for anarchist bioregions might be part of the solution.
The leading markets for this book will be major public and Division 1 research university libraries and university courses in education policy, education law, education history, political science, and public policy.

Название: Regulatory Transformations
ISBN: 1509917829 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509917822
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This collection explores debates on global capitalism and its regulation. It integrates three areas: Karl Polanyi`s economic sociology, regulation studies and socio-legal studies of transnational risks.

Автор: Chloe N. Thurston
Название: At the Boundaries of Homeownership
ISBN: 1108434525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108434522
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Homeownership is a paradox of American culture: a symbol of capitalist meritocracy, yet historically made possible by an activist government that few citizens recognize. This book examines the development of homeownership policy as part of this hidden welfare state and its transformation to include previously excluded groups over the twentieth century.

Автор: Moore Jane, Moore William
Название: Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality: Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition
ISBN: 0252084098 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252084096
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Antislavery white clergy and their congregations. Radicalized abolitionist women. African Americans committed to ending slavery through constitutional political action. These diverse groups attributed their common vision of a nation free from slavery to strong political and religious values. Owen Lovejoy’s gregarious personality, formidable oratorical talent, probing political analysis, and profound religious convictions made him the powerful leader the coalition needed.

Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality examines how these three distinct groups merged their agendas into a single antislavery, religious, political campaign for equality with Lovejoy at the helm. Combining scholarly biography, historiography, and primary source material, Jane Ann Moore and William F. Moore demonstrate Lovejoy's crucial role in nineteenth-century politics, the rise of antislavery sentiment in religious spaces, and the emerging congressional commitment to end slavery. Their compelling account explores how the immorality of slavery became a touchstone of political and religious action in the United States through the efforts of a synergetic coalition led by an essential abolitionist figure.

Автор: Jamila Michener
Название: Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics
ISBN: 1316510190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316510193
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book is about how Medicaid intersects with federalism and how it affects the lives of the people who use it and shapes their democratic citizenship. The primary audience is academics and informed members of the public interested in American politics, public policy, healthcare, inequality, contextual effects, and democracy.